• Pharaoh → In the land of the Pharaoh, you did what you were told, whether in erecting a colossal temple or in solving a math problem. [describing ancient Egypt]

• commode → …The Animal Hour which features a woman's head being severed and stuffed into a commode.

• quatrain → Your aid I want, nine trees to plant. In rows just half a score; And let there be in each row three. Solve this: I ask no more. —Rational Amusement for Winter Evenings, London, 1821. John Jackson

• sarcophagus → The marble sarcophagus in which the body of General Washington now rests was a gift from a Philedelphia stonemason in 1837.

• vignette → A series of autobiographical vignettes.

• finch → a class of bird, including sparrow, cardinal, canary and others.

• gangplank → Louis Lumiére had photographed the members of the Photographic Congress disembarking from a gangplank at Neuville-Sur-Saone.

• dredging → For the past month, divers have been clearing away 3 ft. of sediment from on top of the 40-ft.-long sub and dredging an excavation trench around it. … [Time Mag. 2000-06-19. p. 58, "Raising the Hunley"]